Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and September 25, 2026.
Butte County, Idaho, has about 2,700 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Butte County Sheriff's Office. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Butte County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Butte County public records, Idaho arrest records, Idaho inmate search and Idaho criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Butte County
The Butte County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Butte County. It reported 16 arrests for 2022, its latest complete year.
How Many Arrests The Butte County Sheriff's Office Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Butte County Sheriff's Office: 16 for 2022, 50 for 2021, 36 for 2020 and 25 for 2019.
The Butte County Sheriff's Office's 16 arrests in 2022 were down 68 percent from 50 in 2021.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Butte County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Butte County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2019 the jail held about 4 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 8 beds, and it ran at 50 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Idaho Department of Correction, whose inmate locator is at idoc.idaho.gov/content/prisons/resident-client-search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Butte County
An arrest in Butte County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Butte County District Court, kept by the Clerk of the District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at buttecountyid.us/officials/prosecuting-attorney, phone (208) 527-3458).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/county-courthouse-directory (page title: County Courthouse Directory | Idaho Courts | Idaho Supreme Court), phone (208) 287-6900, belongs to a lower court, not to the Butte County District Court.
Statewide, iCourt Portal is the Idaho courts' free statewide case search.
Idaho is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: name-based conviction checks are open to the public, through the Idaho State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Butte County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the Idaho Public Records Act the agency must answer within 3 working days, or 10 when more time is needed, and it may charge copying after the first 100 pages and labor after the first two hours.
- An arrest by the Butte County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, (208) 527-3458, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Butte County District Court it is kept by the Clerk of the District Court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at isc.idaho.gov, phone (208) 287-6900, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Butte County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Butte County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Butte County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Butte County each year?
The Butte County Sheriff's Office reported 16 arrests to the FBI for 2022, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Butte County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Butte County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Butte County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Idaho State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification: name-based conviction checks are open to the public. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Idaho Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Butte County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Butte County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Idaho Public Records Act the answer is due within 3 working days, or 10 when more time is needed.
Is this the official Butte County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.